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Lata Mangeshkar upset with Atif Aslam for ‘Chalte Chalte’ new version

The nightingale of our country, Lata Mangeshkar is unhappy
with the Pakistani singer Atif Aslam for remixing the iconic song ‘Chalte
Chalte’ from Meena Kumari starrer ‘Pakeezah’. The new version of ‘Chalte Chalte’
was done for a Bollywood film titled ‘Mitron’.

The living legend, Lata
Mangeshkar, who sang the song in ‘Pakeezah’ luckily did not hear Atif's version. The recreated version was composed by Tanishk Bangchi.

"And I don't
want to hear it. This trend of remixing old songs saddens me. Where is the
creativity in simply lifting acknowledged, beloved classics and shuffling the
notes around? I've even heard that the lyrics are changed in the remixes. By
whose consent?

"The original
poets and composers wrote what they had to. Nobody has the right to tamper with
the creativity of these great composers and lyricists."

Singer and BJP MP
Babul Supriyo, who is not a fan of Atif Aslam, said: "Today, even the
'poetic' term ''artistic liberty' is at the verge of extinction. With due
respect (and disrespect) to Atif Aslam, as a singer myself, I will observe
2-minutes silence to mourn rather than offering a comment."

Singer Alka Yagnik, whose song 'Dilbar Dilbar' was
also remixed for 'Satyamev Jayate' said" "Why don't they make a new song and make it a superhit if they
can, instead of picking up an already superhit song, distorting it, and
releasing it again... and then saying, 'See, it's become so popular'!

"Chalo humaare gaanon ke saath ye zulm kartey hain (They
do this with our songs)... but their audacity is increasing by the day. Now
they've started doing this to Lata Didi's song as well."

Pahlaj Nihalani, the former Chairperson of the censor board, linked
the issue with the country’s sentiments.

"Every day there is an incident. Our soldiers are being
killed. We can't say artistes are immune to politics. At the end of the day,
they are citizens of their country first, artistes later."